You've been hanging around Windows users too much <G>.  Linux normally doesn't 
require a reboot. Sometimes you have to restart the deamons with 
the /etc/init.d/whatever restart.  

On Friday April 28 2006 20:42, Kevin wrote:
> Hi All-
>
> I've read the portage documentation at
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoo and I've searched
> and browsed the gentoo-user mailing list archive, but I have a question
> that I don't see answered anywhere.
>
> It seems to me that it must be true that sometimes, after a system
> upgrade done with:
>
> emerge -uD system
> or
> emerge -uD world
>
> I must reboot the computer for the changes to take effect.
>
> I could be wrong on this, but it seems reasonable to me to think that I
> should reboot in certain circumstances.  Perhaps after an upgrade to the
snip
> -Kevin

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